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Coastal Marine Zones [mzddmmyy]
Offshore Marine Zones [ozddmmyy]
High Seas Marine Zones [hzddmmyy]


Overview of Coastal, Offshore and High Seas Marine Zones
Detailed view of the Marine Zones and access to forecasts.
Detailed view of the Offshore Zones and access to forecasts.

Description Valid Date Available Version(s) Size (bytes) #Records MD5Sum Documentation
Coastal Marine Zones
Including the Great Lakes
7 July 2011 Download Compressed Shapefile mz07jl11.zip 24,246,687 470 344f1f9e349fa3d16ee35733ae9f0833 Change History Metadata
3 April 2012 Download Compressed Shapefile mz03ap12.zip 22,649,704 458 2fda0ade732459e8be2b43706f6da17c
Offshore Marine Zones 1 December 2010 Download Compressed Shapefile oz01de10.zip 189,883 33 b78346eabc880dd00b757d619a79eaf0 Change History Metadata
3 April 2012 Download Compressed Shapefile oz03ap12.zip 446,346 56 c8a8f51dfa5750cd781f4763ea84acd7
High Seas Zones 30 March 2009 Download Compressed Shapefile hz30mr09.zip 103,258 7 Change History Metadata

File Specifications:

Naming Convention: mz ddmmyy .shp/.shx/.dbf - where .shp, .shx, .dbf are the extensions of the 3 component files of the shapefile and .prj is the projection file.
Shapefile Type: polygon
Source: NWSI 10-302

Attributes:

field name type width,dec description
ID character 6 Marine Zone Identifier
WFO character 3 Assigned WFO (Office Identifier)
NAME character 250 Name of Marine Zone
LON numeric 10,5 Longitude of Centroid [decimal degrees]
LAT numeric 9,5 Latitude of Centroid [decimal degrees]

Comments: Due to increased lead time for implementation of offical changes, the current version and the new version of the shapefiles will not be available on this page.



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